WHEN historians examined Western civilization in the twentieth century, one area of intellectual accomplishment that stood out above all others was the twentieth century’s “age of science”.
Science discovered our very sense of who we are, how our minds work, how our world came to be, how it works and our proper role in it, our ultimate origins, and our ultimate fate were all influenced by scientific thinking.
But the only drawback then was scientists only communicated among themselves and published their breakthroughs in their journals which were considered sacrosanct – and strictly out of reach of the general public.
However, Archimedes of Syracuse was the only scientist of that erstwhile period known to have advertised his scientific discovery publicly.
